... I'm blessed if I can make it aout, It fare like suthin wrong, And what it mean I must be towd By some'un afore long. Whoy iverything's a gooin' on The saine's did afore, Essept the waiges, to be sure- The waige thaigy are lower I And where, I watt to knaow's Them acres three Thaiy promised me, And where's that there owd caow P I towd my mnaite the tother diiy, I say, bor! we are done. No ...

... D TURYT.IANqE.-Eyer7 D0ay, at 1.30. Every Evening, atl 7.3 DALX3PTl ?? WNi beea deblght tn old endod yne for month to rome 1-Times. ,The Imeat d riceIVI spectacle that Al ha~rris, has ever conttiejtd ?? raxecnte'l .-Tnleforaph. Onet thngogrg oll.), S peotntenl fa wghich Drory Lane has breve frtn.-itttl~'d 'Mrl. Haurrin has beond fluolatin addL anotrer tollin long list ofuttosr.Dli ne I ...

... The followinbg letter has been addressed to the Editor of The Times:- Sir,-l deeply regret to find that your dramatic critic is an advocate of the system of judgment summed up by himself as whistling, cat-calls, singing, and other demonstrations that go to the 'guying' of a piece.' I had hoped that the brutal uproar with which the efforts of a most courageous and capable actress were ...

... The Queen has expressed her willingness to become patron of the fortheorfing Colonial and Indian exhibition. Princess Frederica of Hanover has pre- sented Mr. Cheesman, the stationmaster of the Windsor station of the South-Western railway, with an elegantly-designed gold fila- gree scarf-pin set with pearls and rubies, in ack nowledgmenlt of his attention. The Earl of Lonsciale has intimated ...

... FREDERICK PITMAN.-'' The Apropos Gavotte, by Jessie Morison, is one of the best of the season, and has gained so ouch popularity as to lead to its publication in nine different form)s, beginning with a pianoforte solo, and ending in a full military hani. By the above composer is Summer Dreams Waltz, which is of a very ordinary type.- Dawning of Love Waltz, by Reginald Foy, will attract ...

... inL - - Tm.EA TkJEs TirE failure of Nadletza at the HAYMIAIZKET happily affords no ground for the conclusion that audiences in these days object to a bold and unconventional treatment of a serious theme. After all, evil passions are the great sources of tragic interest. To exclude these fromn the domain of the dramatist is simply to limit the stage to the pretty commonplaces of Berquin and ...

... MUSICAL GOSSIP, (FRoM TtRUTH-] DR. FuAiSm LISzT has now fixed April 1 as the date of his arrival in Engtland, and be will re. main here about a fortnight. As this will be Liszt's first visit to London for upwards of forty years, he will be lioised to the utmost of his heart's desire. But although he will be present among the audience at concerts or his eomapesi. tious to be given at St. ...

... CUTTINGS FROMI THE COMICS. (From Xoonsldine.) CORN IN EGYPT.'-Buninl at home. POLITICS FOR TirE SaAsoN.-Mistletoe-r~n.m AT Manchester all dogs are to be confined until the 31st of March. When that day of freedom arrives, they will probably go for ' the Mayor and corporation, and bite them into madness of the liveliest and most irreversible sort. A ColsPpoAssse.-Scene-Railway carriage ...

... S YL VAH AT WiTiER. EVERY department of nature, however small, is practically i,?tP The more a man works at it the more does he find how m1uch1- still left to work at. Mr. Heath's own chosen department is very narrow one; and yet what a wealth of varied interest he ' extract from it and to impress upon his readers HI is PlarLictI1at 1-i consists just of our dozen or so of English forest trees ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7.-We said a laugh- ing good-by to the Old Year on its last night at the Menus-Plaisirs, for the review, entitled Pele - Mitle Gazette, which MIDI. Blondeau, Monrial, and Grisier brought out there to wind up a twelvemouth's doings, is really amusing, and, all things considered, capitally acted; and yesterday evening 1886 opened fire in ...

... VAmUD I THEATRZ It would be esy to say of DeMri. D ei s now comedy, brought out last ?? at the Vaudeville, that It is only Mlr. Thmen onoe morn ln thie caracter of alu amiable simpleton wh~o paimis himself to be the help- less toold desgnng persons, yF -s eapabe f gene- ions emotions maid of noble .deed5. ,Trth, to tell, Plebeiasi presents little ftat is new Or un~cone- b tional in the way ...

... THE DRAI[A IN AMERICA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, DECEMBER 24, 1885.-All the theatres announce Christmas matindes to-morrow, and every one will have a good time but the artists who will have to furnish the amusement. But they will probably make up for it in the evening, when ordinary humanity is fast asleep dreaming of another Christmas come and gone. MANON had its first ...